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In reply to the discussion: I hope everyone who thinks it's OK to "just breed her once" or "just buy one dog" reads this all the [View all]OwnedByCats
(805 posts)spaying and neutering is making a difference, just doesn't feel like it sometimes when you're still seeing tons of homeless animals. I find the whole thing incredibly heartbreaking. I also live in an area where people drop their cats off on my road, they end up at my house and I HAVE to do SOMETHING because I can't stand to see them like that. It's like these people know I'm just going to handle their irresponsible decision, even though I know they don't know me.
The whole thing of having a dog or cat have one litter never made any sense to me. The only time in my life that I ended up with a pet, a cat, who had kittens was when I found a stray who was already pregnant. I spay and neuter always, even though my cats do not even go outside, but you never know. Cats and dogs don't "need" to have one litter, much less many litters. I don't know why people get that idea. Then there is the case of my aunt, she has 4 dogs. The two males are neutered and the two females are not spayed. Her boyfriend, who was not in her life when she got her males neutered but was when she adopted the girls, didn't think it was "right" to spay/neuter dogs so my aunt did not have the girls done. What happened? One of the girls went into heat and my aunt thought as long as she kept them at home, there would not be a problem. Unfortunately it was a problem. She got out somehow (and from what I understand dogs and cats can be pretty crafty about finding a way outside when they are in heat) and she ended up pregnant. I was so mad, but what can I do? My aunt knows it was a bad decision to not have them spayed, yet she let her stupid boyfriend talk her out of it. I just hope she changes her mind and gets them done.
But yeah, irresponsible humans - just can't believe how many are that way. It makes my blood boil. I understand about changes in circumstances - sometimes people don't have a choice. The only problem I have with most likely a small percentage of those people are the ones that don't bother to find a shelter or an alternative home, they just abandon them. I just don't understand how anyone can do that.